This story got to me after downloading it and the subtitles. I've been in a very similar situation before long ago, but the story is basic.
The young couple’s marriage is falling apart because of her husbands illness and they rarely speak. Their home has been bombed out a few years prior in the war and the husband feels he's been a failure after losing so much and then an old friend of both comes for a visit and it turns out that the wife was once the friends lover and is still in love so she has to decide which man she will stay with. This movie might just have you in tears if you're the sentimental fool I am.
There is no political message here, but the deep rooted Chinese customs of loyalty and faithfulness are part of it's message.
Without the subtitles it's probably going to be of no interest to you, but if you have VLC installed it will read the subtitles very well.
You can download VLC free and it is cross platform so it will work with almost any operating system.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Just make sure your subtitles and movie files have the exact same file name by renaming one or both and place both in the same file folder.